LeDuc said the city met with property owners and managers, and distributed 500 fliers in the area. The fliers included a phone number for residents to call and comment on the plan, and no one called to object, he said.

LeDuc said he did not have statistics, but that the section of Southeast 190th Avenue consistently has the highest concentration of criminal activity in Rockwood.

The Portlandmaps.com website shows more than 500 crimes in the last 12 months in the area.

The apartments in the area all provide parking for tenants, so street parking is mostly for visitors or people just hanging out.

“They a have a real congregation of people just there to do crime,” LeDuc said.

LeDuc said apartment owners are glad the city has decided to remove on-street parking.

“Apartment managers and owners say they have tried everything to get these people out of here. They are really looking forward to it,” he said. “There’s plenty of room for tenant parking. There’s no reason to have all these cars on the street.”

The police ran several operations in the area last summer to clean out the criminal activity, LeDuc said. “But a week later they’d be back.”